ABSTRACT
JEupllb1l'Om.u" tte",ew., April lltb, 1171. LaIO and Ladies. 155
district of Columbia, admit women to practise law, much the same arguments are used against them as themedical world are familiar with in this country. "The law of nature destines the female sex for the bearing and nurture of children and for the custody of the home," was the dictum of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin; ergo, women must not practise law. "The vices and infirmities of society with which the law has to deal, would be revolting to female innocence and the sanctity of their sex, and shocking to man's reverence for womanhood, and faith in woman," consequently it decreed that women must not appear in la w-courts as members of the profession, but only as plantiffs or criminals.
